Meet Mikie Sherrill

Early life and education[edit]
Sherrill was born in Alexandria, Virginia.[2] She grew-up in various locations along the east coast of the United States due to her father's job.[2][5]
Sherrill attended high school in Northern Virginia.[6] In 1994, she graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis with a BS.[1] In 2003, Sherrill received a MS in economic history from the London School of Economics. In 2004, she received a certificate in Arabic language from The American University in Cairo. In 2007, Sherrill earned a juris doctor law degree from Georgetown Law.[7]
Career[edit]
Military[edit]
Sherrill graduated from flight school in the first class of women eligible for combat.[8] From 1994 to 2003, after graduating from the Naval Academy, Sherrill became a U.S. Navy H3 Sea King helicopter pilot and a Russian policy officer.[2] Sherrill flew missions throughout Europe and in the Middle East.[5][7] In 2000, she was based out of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi.
Sherrill served as Battle Watch Floor in the European Theater during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and as a Flag Aide to the Deputy Commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.[citation needed] Sherrill was a Russian policy officer when she worked at the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Navy, Europe.[2]
In 2003, Sherrill was promoted to the position of lieutenant commander.[9] After almost 10 years in the military serving active duty, Sherrill resigned from the military in 2003.[citation needed]
Law[edit]
In 2007, after retiring from the military, Sherrill earned a law degree from Georgetown Law. In the summer of 2007, Sherrill was a summer associate at Kirkland & Ellis.[10] From 2008 to 2011, she worked as an associate in the litigation department at Kirkland & Ellis's New York City office.[11]
From 2012 to 2015, Sherrill worked as an outreach and reentry coordinator at the office of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, a position that was a program that worked with communities to prevent crime. She worked to support people who were recently released from prison to get a second chance getting jobs, secure housing, and access education to stop recidivism.[8]
In 2015, she became an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, a federal prosecutor, working for the office of United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey under Paul Fishman.[2][12] Sherrill worked in police community relations.[13] She left that office in the spring of 2016.[5] She had planned on going into the field of criminal justice reform.[7]
 
you going to LIE about her service like you do all American vets who run on the Democratic party ticket
 
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